Advice and tips for writing fiction. Topics include world-building, omniscient point of view, how to get started, being original, editing, etc.
Are you a writer? Do you worry that no one will like your title? Do you worry that your character won't be relatable? Or maybe you worry that your story is not good enough, so you ask people if they like the title, character, or the story. But then you get some people saying, "No, I don't like it." And sometimes without helpful reasons.
If you are doing omniscient, how do you do dialogue without head hopping? How do you make normal fiction writing dialogue work in omniscient?
What a struggle.
Because you can't head hop, you either have to integrate the thoughts into dialogue, or put it in your narrative as no-voice head hopping.
I read an example of a good sequel and a bad sequel. Might be able to learn something here if you want to write a good sequel. In the bad sequel, the sequel was nothing but filler. The beginning, good. The last two chapters, shocking. The middle twenty chapters were just a lot of filler … Continue reading Good Sequel, Bad Sequel: What can writers learn?
How does a writer come up with a story? This is a question non-writers ask me sometimes. How does it even happen? I think similar things about digital illustrators or cake chefs or sculptors. How do you even come up with the thing, right? How does it go from nothing to novel? As a writer, … Continue reading From Nothing to Novel: How a story is born
Writing fiction can be an enjoyable delight, like a sunset blushing the sky. But it can also come with a prickly shadow, or have clouds rolling in, threatening a storm. Apart from all the technical worries like chapter length or character names, there's also these monsters that will climb out of the darkness, threatening you to give up:
FOXWOOD FOREST 